{"id":122088,"date":"2014-12-09T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=122088"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:05:14","slug":"anderson-silva-theres-lot-homosexuals-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anderson-silva-theres-lot-homosexuals-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva: ‘There’s a lot of homosexuals in MMA’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I don\u2019t think there\u2019s prejudice, but there\u2019s a lot of homosexuals in mixed martial arts. There are a lot of them who haven\u2019t yet come out.<\/em><\/p>\n

[If they were to come out,] nowadays it\u2019s so silly to not express your feelings. As long as you respect people\u2019s spaces, and respect their limits. You have to live your life in peace and no one has anything to do with that.<\/em><\/p>\n

I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it\u2019s all right. I don\u2019t think much of it. The fact that guy is gay doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren\u2019t gay. he can do whatever he wants with his private life.<\/em><\/p>\n

They tease me. Sometimes people think I\u2019m gay. A lot of people have asked me if I\u2019m gay. I answer, “Look, not to my knowledge. But I\u2019m still young, it could be that in the future I\u2019ll find out that I\u2019m gay. I take good care of my things, I put everything in a bag, I use soap, I put on a cream after training. People think it\u2019s capricious. To each his own. Doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re more man or less man, more gay or less gay.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In some refreshing new commentary, the P4p GOAT speaks out about equality and the presence of a gay community in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n

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(Quotes via This Article<\/a> on Fightland.vice.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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